CaseFireball1972
Williamsport, PA, USA
fireball, ( meteor ? )
Report quality: Moderate48/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (22 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-07-20
- Where
- Williamsport, PA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.241, -77.001 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-williamsport-pa-1972-b12245
In context
- This is one of 33 reports logged in Williamsport, PA.
- This case is one of 6 Pennsylvania reports filed in 1972.
- Fireball craft made up 2.6% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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